Podcast: Unmasking the Myths of Covid-19 with Dr. Naor Bar Zeev

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hi my name is elisa minkin i'm a general pediatrician and i'm the co-chair of the joma preventative health committee and i'm here today with dr naor barzev phd mph mbbs and biostat he's the deputy director of the international vaccine access center and associate professor of international health and vaccinology at johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health he is a pediatric infectious disease physician and a statistical epidemiologist his research is on how to maximize vaccine research is on how to maximize vaccine benefits for low resource high mortality areas of the world he recently co-authored a piece in the lancet on covet 19 vaccine trials entitled encouraging results from phase 1 and 2 covid19 vaccine trials that was july 20th 2020 so just first of all thank you so much so so much for joining us today hi lisa thank you um we took a poll of our listeners we asked for questions we got a few and i'm going to share a couple but we um ended up asking people a poll it was easier for people to answer those it was easier for people to answer those few questions rather than generate their own and some of the questions were you know split um 70 thought it was necessary to wear masks you know what we called across the board and 30 felt it was unnecessary and um about half people felt they had a low risk higher version and about half felt they had a high risk aversion so people are very different with their personalities and how they're approaching this this uncertain risk but across almost across the board

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1. 0:01hi my name is elisa minkin i'm a general pediatrician and i'm the co-chair of the…
2. 5:06uncertain yeah no look i think that you know what we're seeing is science unfolding in…
3. 10:38population level you know overall if we can reduce infections by 15 by 30 percent by…
4. 15:44and we shouldn't lean on them so much that we become too dependent on a faulty…
5. 21:20hydroxychloroquine is a cardiac cardioactive drug it has cardiac side effects on rhythm it can cause…
6. 26:53what do i do with my positive test what do i do my negative test what…
7. 31:57should not be swabbed now that was clear and that made so much sense it got…
8. 37:31mistake or a strategic mistake in communication to call it an operation wall street operation we're…
9. 42:42healthy people it's not coming up with a new cure for cancer and i'm giving it…
10. 48:17questions about safety and questions about real world effectiveness as opposed to trial based efficacy um…

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